You want a banning too? Happy to oblige.

I guess you dont know that Kokumin Hoken now covers (some) overseas medical treatment (some people have apparently done it) as long as you provide receipts, but Kokumin Hoken will cover virtually all...

Big deductions if you have wife and kids. Assume OP on work visa, is not married. Also can deduct health insurance premiums and life insurance. Single people get stiffed, truth be told.

It is especially when you have about 6 weeks with no classes.

No just me and EA having a friendly playfight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_BdAk7H6Lk&feature=related

what part of Tokyo do you live in? If you are in a ward (ku) and not in a city (i.e with its own mayor) there may not even be a city tax but a ward, village tax. Tokyo is a conglomerate of wards and...

More like EA has found Jesus. One can only hope I suppose.

Point being, you love your wife but there are thresholds. There are certain points that you will not go beyond and consider staying married. The thresholds are different for each person, beyond which...

Everything you do in your marriage is a good faith gesture, and i have learnt from experience you can never take a spouse for granted.

One might even see them as debts to be repaid i.e I went out...

Nor does it mean the chances of it NOT happening are exactly ZERO. Probability is in the eye of the beholder. I know PLENTY of people who have been through the same kind of sh1t I have.

and consumption tax which will probably go up to 8% from 2013 and 10% thereafter.

City tax is about 4% though I have no idea what prefectural taxes will be. Each city is different as its based on the number of taxpayers (people in large cities tend to pay less as they have a...

No, they are mandatory by law. Some people just choose not to pay them as there is no punishment for not doing so. Its mandatory to wear seat belts and obey traffic signals but that doesnt stop...

If you dont want to live outside your own country then my feeling is that perhaps you should not get mixed up in an international marriage or marry foreigners. Marrying another person from overseas...

Your mind is totally made up, so its like talking to a brick wall.

who the hell are you talking about? the OP is single, or are you talking hypothetically?

Also getting married, for better or worse does not usually require that one person decide to live in one...

Tatsuo, in the last ten years I have experienced racial discrimination, bigotry. Lost two court cases and got walloped by a family court judge. Courts here are biased against divorced husbands. The...

You talk endlessly about not being anyones gatekeeper but you talk endlessly about how I should or should not talk to people, inject yourself into conversations that I am rude etc i.e YOU decide what...

Hindsight is always 20/20. Its like the Monday morning quarterback who always wishes they had made the play differently. However you can not change the play once its already happened.

Some plays...

National tax is about 8% of Gross Income, municipal/ city taxes about 4% Pension and health insurance about 8-10%.

Thats what I get called here on an almost weekly basis. Why am I different from the OP?



Only if you don't succeed according to the expectations and standards of other people what they think...

and get called a failed loser, which is exactly what would happen to the OP if he falls flat on his face after coming here. But the Taliban would not actually phrase it like that though. They would...

read the initial post





so the OP comes to an Internet forum, asks people what kinds of degrees can lead to certain jobs. Based on the answer he gets he will decide to spend $30-50,000 and...

An English-major degree will make you educated, it wont necessarily provide you with a job. Gaijin Pot is living proof that there are people with degrees but they are still idiots and many of them...

If you are really that keen to come to Japan Temple University offers an undergraduate degree course in Economics at their Tokyo campus. They also have degrees in Japanese and international business....